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A piece I wrote on one of the most fascinating and incredible thriftstore finds I've ever stumbled upon.
The Edwardians and Victorians were not like us, they believed in a nobility of their political class that's almost impossible to understand or relate to, and that believe, that attribution of nobility is tied up with something even more mysterious: their belief in the fundamental nobility of rhetoric.
Still not sure entirely how I feel about this, or how sure I am of my conclusions but this has had me spellbound in fascination and so I wrote about it.
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Notes -
That's Kulak in a nutshell, really.
There's an oft-repeated line about how institutions are run counter to how society is. For example, corporations don't constantly rely on contracts for every little thing, but run as a command economy of sorts. I think of Kulak in the same way, and if this was an ideologically diverse space with a more relaxed environment, I wouldn't mind because he provides a similar thing - a strong idea which can be walked back from in the discussion around it.
But given the space we have, it's just annoying to see more of the same ideas without discussion of their flaws.
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